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WolfishMusings
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Why are you acknowledging your goyish “relatives”?

Because you don’t get to pick who your family is.

I’m so happy for you that you have the perfect family where no one ever sins and everything goes perfectly for you. Here, in the real world, it doesn’t always work that way.

Yes, I have non-Jewish relatives, not through any choice or fault of my own. I’m sorry if my family makes me unacceptable to you, but they *are* still family and so they are still welcome in my home. We’ve had them over for happy occasions and for sad, for Shabbos and for Yom Tov. We believe that it’s important for those kids who are halachically Jewish to see what a Jewish home is and that in the cases where the it’s the wife who’s not Jewish that perhaps they might want to convert.

The Wolf